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Cooper Health
System to Pay
$12.6 Million
New-Jersey based
Cooper Health
System and
Cooper
University
Hospital have
agreed to pay
$12.6 million to
settle
a False Claims
Act case alleging
the hospital
created the
Cooper Heart
Institute
Advisory Board
(“CHIAB”), a
sham entity to
pay doctors with
high-volume
medical
practices
upwards of
$18,500 each to
do little more
than watch four
lectures per
year hosted at
an elegant
banquet
facility. The
whistleblower,
Dr. Nicholas L.
DePace, is a
nationally-recognized
expert in
cardiology who
was approached
by Cooper Health
to join CHIAB.
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CVS
Medicare Part D Case AdvancesCVS is getting hammered pretty early on in a False Claims
Act case involving alleged Medicare Part D fraud. Judge Walter
D. Buckwalter has
rejected all of the points put up by the
company, which runs
a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) program, as well as a retail
pharmacy operation . The
Department of Justice has filed a ‘statement of interest’ in the
case, but has not yet joined.
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And
Justice for All?
U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle has
expressed outrage that the DoJ has
proposed a deferred prosecution agreement for WakeMed Health and Hospitals in what is believed to
be the first case in which a U.S. hospital has been charged criminally
with making false statements to rip off Medicare. Boyle called the
agreement, which also called for WakeMed to pay $8 million,
a “slap on the hand," noting that a
deferred-prosecution agreement is normally offered to
marijuana-smoking teenagers visiting the local beach, not to
corporations accused of financial crimes in excess of a million
dollars. The
judge said he would revisit the 116-page proposed settlement
agreement
on February 5th.

Taking Fraud Seriously?
Does B. Braun Medical take corporate compliance seriously?
They say so, but
if you watch this video, produced at great
time and expense with custom music, lyrics and costumes in 2011 after the
company was
nicked for $14.7 million under the False Claims Act in 2010,
you will notice that the fraudsters escape from law enforcement which is
presented as not being
focused on its job.